shock!Empress Dowager

Chapter 136 Making soap and candles

"Shi Miao, you're finally back! I've been carefully stirring the soap for you all day, and my arm is almost useless."

Miya yawned and spoke slowly.

From now on, she doesn't like the process of making soap anymore, it's simple and boring, it's better to learn how to cook from Aunt Liu.

"Thank you for your hard work! In order to reward you for your hard work all afternoon, I decided to reward you with roasted rabbit meat tonight."

Shi Miao looked at Miya and couldn't help but chuckled.

"It's almost there!"

Hearing that there was roasted rabbit meat, Gu Tianjiao also got excited. Speaking of which, they probably haven't eaten roasted rabbit meat for several days.

"There is still time. Let me see how the oil is saponified. I might be able to make soap tonight. Please Tianjiao draw water into the bath and heat the kang by the way. Let's try it together tonight." How does it feel to try boiling water in this bath, and see if there is a chance to try the soap I made."

Shi Miao smiled lightly and said.

After coming here, the existing conditions make it difficult for them to take a bath every day, especially now that the weather is getting colder and everyone is doing heavy work, and now they rarely sweat, and the number of baths is even higher. not enough.

Now that we want to improve the quality of life, it is still necessary to take a bath in the bathtub every now and then.

"Okay! I'll go right now!"

Gu Tianjiao is used to obeying Shi Miu's arrangement.

"What about me? Do you want to assign me a task?"

Seeing Gu Tianjiao leave, Miya pointed to herself and said.

"You, ask Aunt Liu to kill two rabbits for me, and wash some potatoes for me. Let's bake some potatoes tonight."

Shi Miao smiled lightly and opened her mouth slowly.

"okay!"

Miya quickly went out to find Liu Ailing to catch the rabbit and kill it.

When she was alone in the kitchen, Shi Miao walked over to look at the fat in the pot that hadn't solidified because she had been stirring it all the time. She stirred it a little with chopsticks twice to make sure that the fat was almost saponified, and she nodded in satisfaction. Then I ran back to my room and picked off the wild chrysanthemums that had been inserted into the bamboo tube in advance and separated them petal by petal. I took them back to the kitchen and evenly sprinkled the petals of the chrysanthemums in the pot. I stirred them again with chopsticks for a while to let the chrysanthemums The petals were fully stirred evenly, and then the pot was taken down and placed directly in the yard to let the fully saponified fat in the pot cool down slowly.

After that, Shi Miao found a few bamboo joints slightly thicker than fingers, and found a cotton rope, and after dividing the cotton rope into finger-length pieces, she asked Miya to help light the fire in the yard. She found a useless iron spoon, took out the wax flakes in the bamboo basket, squeezed them into small pieces, threw them into the iron spoon and roasted them on the fire.

After the wax melted, she asked Miya to stuff the cotton rope vertically into the bamboo joint to grab it, while she carefully poured the melted wax water into the bamboo joint bit by bit.

After making more than a dozen candles in this way, it was already seven o'clock, Shi Miao stopped, and Yumiya put a few candles waiting to be cooled on the window sill in the yard to let them cool down by themselves.

After finishing these, Liu Ailing had already pulled out the two rabbits and cleaned them up, and gave Shi Miao all the ingredients that needed to be brushed with rabbit meat.

Because it took Shi Miao to make the candles either long or short, Liu Ailing took the initiative to build another fire, and threw the potatoes into the fire to roast.

After Shi Miao made the candles, all that was left was to simply roast the rabbit meat.

Shi Miao continued to roast the rabbit meat with the same method, and brushed the inside and outside of the rabbit with sauce. This sauce was improved by Liu Ailing. It smells very delicious. There is a kind of attractive fragrance.

Although two rabbits are not enough to feed eight people, but with a few potatoes, they are enough to feed everyone.

It is not suitable to take a bath immediately after meals.

After the elders left, Shi Miao asked the other three to help carefully split the bamboo knots wrapped around the cooled candle.

And she herself was dealing with the soap that had cooled and solidified in the past.

There were quite a lot of soap in the half pot, so Shi Miao used a dagger to gently draw a circle around the pot, slowly separating the soap from the bottom of the pot, then poured the soap carefully on the smooth iron plate, and then used the dagger The large pieces of soap were carefully cut into squares of suitable size bit by bit, ten pieces of larger pieces of soap were cut, and there were more than a dozen pieces of small pieces of soap with rounded corners.

Shi Miao chuckled in satisfaction: "The soap is divided, I will give each of you a piece, and tonight everyone can wash the incense together.

I don't know if it's easy to use, so let's use these small ones first. "

"I want to pick first!"

Gu Tianjiao suddenly became excited, and picked out a piece of almost white soap with chrysanthemum flowers in it, which seemed to be the most beautiful.

Liu Ailing and Miya were very casual, each took a piece casually.

"Okay, let's each take four of these dozen candles, and tomorrow I will make more and distribute them to Gu Ao and the others."

"Shi Miao, you are so kind! I love you so much!"

Gu Tianjiao had a few more candles in her hands, and her eyes couldn't help but feel warm.

What should I do if I hold my thigh too hard?Strangely exciting.

"I know you love me, okay, okay, it's almost time, I guess the water should be hot, let's go get pajamas and take a bath together."

Shi Miao chuckled, watching the three of them speak.

Afterwards, she went to the room and found the only pajamas from the closet, which was also the only piece of clothing in her closet. Holding the pajamas and holding the soap, she was the first to push the door into the bathroom.

Because the water was heated, the indoor temperature was much higher than the outside, and there was frequent steam coming out of the pool, making the bathroom dense.

Shi Miao first walked to the hanger and took off her clothes, then went down the steps step by step to the bath with bare feet.

The water temperature in the bathtub is just right now, Shi Miao found a place to lean on and sat down enjoying it.

Liu Ailing and Miya came in at the same time. Although they were all women, it was still a bit embarrassing to take a bath together for the first time, so after Liu Ailing entered the water first, Miya took off her clothes and followed.

The three of them sat together in hot water and chatted.

A few minutes later, when Gu Tianjiao was nowhere to be seen, Shi Miao was a little surprised.

"Where's Tianjiao?"

"I don't know. When we came here just now, we called her out on purpose. She said that it's coming soon. Who knows that we haven't seen anyone for so long."

Liu Ailing shook her head lightly.

Then Miya yelled directly: "Gu Tianjiao! Come take a bath!"

Still no one answered outside.

After a few more minutes, Gu Tianjiao pushed open the bathroom door and walked in with a blushing face.

She didn't think too much when boiling the water before, but when Shi Miao said that she was going to take a bath, she realized that everyone was going to take a bath together.

(End of this chapter)